Adam fbimak



A. PRIMAK BELT BUCKLE Nov. 20, 1928.

Filed Sept. 26, 1925 Adam FTIm aii disturbed when applying Patented Nov. 20, 1928;

UNITED STATES Ar -NT omen ADAM- PBIMAK, on MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

BELT BrioKLn.

Application field. September u not be belt.

Further objects are to provide a belt buckle in which a front plate completely covers the mechanism of the buckle, in which no projecting tongues-adapted to engage apertures in the belt are employed, and in which a plain imperforate belt. may be used. .An embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a face view of the buckle. Figure 2 is a sectional view on the line 2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a detail of the detachable por- 7 tion' of the buckle.

Figure L is a rear view of the buckle with the detachable portion and the belt removed.

Figure 5 is a face view of the structure shown in Figure 4. with parts broken away.

The buckle comprises a body plate 1 provided with rearwardly turned flanges 2, as most clearly developed in Figure 2.

An eccentrically mounted roller 3 is pivotally carried between the flanges 2 and is prefcrably provided with teeth or corrugations 4 on the side most remote from the axis of rotation, as brought out in Figure 2.

The adjustable end of thebelt 5 is adapted to be passed around the roller 3 between such roller and the body plate 1 andto be wrapped around the roller and slipped beneath the in- I wardly projecting lugs 6 carried by the side flanges 2, as most clearly brought out in Figures 2 and 4, j

The other end of the buckle is provided with a transverse pin 7 about which the arms 8 of a short plate are wrapped to retain the plate in position. This plate is further provided with forwardly extending feet 9 which contact with the inner face of the. body plate 1. It is provided with a tongue 10 which slants towards the body plate 1, as developed in Figure 2,and which serves to guide the free end of the strap outwardly from the buckle while it is being threaded beneath: the

. roller 3. The plate is further providedwith an inwardly projecting lug 11 which extends towards the body plate and is spaced there from. It will be seen, therefore, that the lip or removing the 26-, 1925;. Serial No. 58,811. f

l means 11 is ri idly held innjosition bythe feet 9and the tongue nl ofthis short plate.

The detachable portion'of the buckle' may comprise a trapezo dal plate 12 provlded with a slot 13 through which the nonad usta'ble end of the belt isthreaded, .This nonadjust ableend is foldedibackwardlyand securedby stitching or other fastenings le, as indicated in Figures 1 and 2. If desired, the free end of the belt may be riveted to the plate 12 or detachable portion the buckle. This de- 7 tachable portion is provided with an outwardly extending short lip '15 -which, as shown in Figure 2, is adapted to hook behind the lip 11 when it is rocked into position and to thereafter temporarily and securely lock the nonadjustable end of the belt to the buckle. W 7

It is apparent that the length of the plate 12 may be varied as occasion demandsso It will be seen that a'novel form of belt that the body portion of the buckle 1 may con a watch chain and which 7 buckle has been provided which may be 7 readily formed from sheetmetaland easily curved during formation to the contour of the body, as indicated in Figure 2, and in which a body plate is provided which fully housesall of-the operating mechanism of the buckle, and thus presents a very attractive Further, the'belt "ay be easily loosened i for readjustment if desired,by merely pushing the free end I tating the roller 3 in a clockwise direction, as shown in Figure 2.

The nonadjustable end of the'b'elt ismost easily attached and detached withrefe'rence to the bodyportionof thebuckle by merely rocking the plate 12" and slipping the tongue 15 behind the tongue. 11'to thus cause interlocking of such tongue.

of the belt inwardly thus r0 adjacent one end of the body portion and liaring a lip extending towards and spaced from the body portion, said member having a slant ing extension projecting towards the center of the body portion and contacting therewith, the other end of said body portion having of a belt, a buckle having inwardly turned lugs and having}; a locking transversely extendingmember located. be tween and spaced from said slanting extension and said last mentioned lugs, one end of said belt being wrapped about said transversely extending locking member and having; its end positioned beneath said last mentioned inturned lugs, a second member secured to the other end of said belt and haw 'ing a right'angnlar lip adapted to interlock with said first mentioned lib.

In testimony that I-claiin the forced it I have hereunto set my hand at Milwanlrem in the county of Milwaukee and State oi": Wis consin.

ADAM PRI IVIAK. 

